The commencing ceremony of Hunan Provincial Museum reconstruction project was held on the morning of July 4. Zhou Qiang, secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, announced the start of the project. Shan Jixiang, director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and Xu Shousheng, governor of Hunan Province, delivered speeches at the ceremony.The CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Hunan Provincial People's Government have exerted great efforts to restructure the museum, aiming at push forward the development and prosperity of socialist culture and realize the goal of making Hunan into a powerful cultural province. It marks that Hunan's culture industry has stepped into a new stage of development, and a milestone in the development history of museum in China, Mr. Shan stated.Governor Xu added that Hunan Provincial Museum is a concentration of Hunan's history and an important carrier of Hunan culture. It is also a card that displays the image and civilization of the province. The project will contribute to building Hunan into a powerful cultural province, enhancing the soft power of Hunan culture, and helping people share the fruits of cultural development.Translator: Zhou JingqiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Xiao Xiangqing, director of the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Hunan Province, met in Changsha with a delegation headed by Royal Thai Consulate-General in Kunming Vichit Chivimarn on July 4, 2011.Xiao welcomed the delegation to Hunan. He said that in recent years, with increasingly frequent communications between Hunan and Thailand, there is vast cooperation potential between the two sides. In mid-April this year, the event "Entering ASEAN-Hunan Week" held by Hunan yielded fruitful results.Xiao hoped that Thailand, as a major part of ASEAN Free Trade Area, will enhance exchange and cooperation with Hunan in economy, trade, culture, tourism, etc. via Vichit Chivimarn's tour.Vichit Chivimarn extended his thanks to Xiao's reception. Hunan's television entertainment is well-developed, and his tour this time aims to visit Hunan Broadcasting System and invite its staff to Thailand, said he. He hoped to promote exchange and cooperation between the two sides in various fields.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On the evening of July 2, Secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee Zhou Qiang and Governor of Hunan Province Xu Shousheng met in Changsha with a delegation headed by Yu Guangzhou, Secretary of Party Leadership Group and Commissioner of the General Administration of Customs (GAC) of the People's Republic of China.Secretary Zhou extended gratitude to GAC for its long-standing support to Hunan's social and economic development. He stated that in recent years, Hunan has intensified efforts to open to the outside world and sped up the development of open economy. The province has also witnessed increased role of advantageous location and maintained a good momentum of development in industrial transfer undertaking and investment promotion. Changsha Customs has made positive contributions to serving the social and economic development in Hunan, in particular promoting its open economy. Mr. Zhou hoped that GAC can rend its support to Hunan as always, and stimulate the province's sound and rapid growth of the open economy. He promised that Hunan will try to facilitate the work of customs as before.Secretary Yu thanked Hunan for its great attention paid to the work of customs. He remarked GAC will further strengthen cooperation with Hunan, and provide better service for its social and economic development.Translator: Zhang MinsiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The picture of "Gathering in Hunan" designed by four students from Hong Kong and Hunan was displayed on a background board, marking the opening of students exchanges between Hong Kong and Hunan on July 3, 2011.Assisted by the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong S.A.R, Hong Kong Youths Unified Association and Kowloon Region School Heads Association held this event. Over 250 college and high school teachers and students would visit Changsha and Shaoshan and carry out exchanges with local students from July 3 to 6.After the opening ceremony, these young students from Hong Kong came to Shaoshan, where they presented flower baskets to the bronze figure of Chairman Mao and visited the former residence and relic museum of Chairman Mao Zedong.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The world's largest Chinese red porcelain was created at high temperature by Yin Yanzheng in Changsha on July 1, 2011.It has been seen in the workshop of Changsha Great Red Porcelain Development Limited Liability Company that the body of the red porcelain is three meters high and it weighs about 400kg. The decoration of two dragons playing with a pearl and propitious cloud engraved in the red body shines with majesty. Tapping on the body, a sonorous and powerful sound rings.The high-temperature technique was mainly used in making small and medium-sized Chinese red porcelain. It is rather difficult to fire such over-two-meter-high works. This year, Changsha Science and Technology Bureau has taken developing such works as its major technological project so as to make breakthroughs in this field and keep a leading role in the world.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Museum of CPC Shaoshan Special Branch, another major patriotism education site at Mao Zedong Memorial Park was open to the public on the morning of July 1.Chairman Mao Zedong and his wife Yang Kaihui founded the Shaoshan special Party branch in June 1925. It is said this branch is one of the earliest rural primary Party organizations across the country.The general Party branch of Shaoshan Village started to build up this museum to further rescue and protect the precious historical materials of the CPC Shaoshan Branch.This museum has five exhibition halls, with the exhibition area totaling 800 square meters. The Party branch's glorious history is presented through sound, light, electricity and restored scenes. The museum plays a role in patriotism education through different art forms, fully displaying the indomitable revolutionary spirits of Shaoshan people.Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Should be of the people's government of zhangjiajie invitation,June 28, to July 2, Thailand MD airlines and 40 travelers,about 50 people come to the zhangjiajie. During a tour zhangjiajie tianzishan, Helong park, Yuanjiajie, Golden whip stream,Baofeng lake, Tianmenshan,Huanglong cave, Junsheng artist, and watched the performance of Tianmen Fox Fairy.According to General manager Mr. LiuKui of Zhangjiajie-XZL-International Travel Service Co., Ltd, since 2010, Thailand market to zhangjiajie tourism guest increases gradually, Only Four and May this year, this company received, Thailand tourists reached 4000, Thailand Tourist charter flights four planes per time, So will be a very good the beautiful scenery of zhangjiajie pushed to Thailand and south east Asia market, they also have the confidence to further expand influence in Thailand market.

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It was revealed from the Changsha Border Checkpoint on June 30 that altogether 2,177 flights were checked through at the border checkpoint in the first half of the year 2011 with 310,545 entry and exit passengers in total, rising by 12.2% and 18.2% respectively compared with the same period of the previous year. Among the passengers, 243,212 were foreign visitors and 64,142 were Taiwan travelers, an increase of 25.4% and 12.7% from a year earlier.There are over ten regular and charter flights opened in Changsha currently, flying directly from the city to Hong Kong, Taipei and Taichung of Taiwan, Seoul, Taegu, Gwangju and Busan of South Korea, Bangkok of Thailand, Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia, Frankfurt in Europe, Singapore, and Japan. The flights are run by more than ten airlines both from home and abroad, including China Southern and China Eastern on the mainland, Dragonair and Hong Kong Airlines in Hong Kong, Air Macau, China Airlines and TransAsia Airways in Taiwan, Korean Airlines and Asian Airlines in South Korea, and Malaysia Airlines.Translator: Xie LingliSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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